Port Orford News Brings Local Sports and Court Docket
Port Orford reports a basketball win by North Bend over Bandon. a Powers fire and theft incident. road hazards with animal herds on Roosevelt Road. the city attorney defending the city against a bridge accident claim. Coos and Curry counties plan work including calf and sheep clubs. local legal actions involve Inland Construction Cap and the Independent Indemnity Co. in a dredging contract suit. council interest in county races and potential candidates. local arrests for forging checks in Eureka. aid denial for Mrs. Sponsil over funeral expenses. fishermen Purdin and Sturdivan recount their near disaster and rescue by an old seaman.
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Bandon
Coosa County
Inland Construction Cap
Independent Indemnity Co
Indemnity
Purl Purdin
Ralph Sturdivan
Port Orford
Briny Deep
Gold Beach
Coos County Notes From Hills and Harbors
Community chatter in Coos County includes plans to form a Governor club with prominent citizens in each city. The St Helens Mist reports Mr and Mrs Peter Gillette moving from Fernd and John Hoover sending mail. Beaver farming and river land interests in North Bend feature Fred Lilewenthal as a local landowner with a 66 to 60 head beaver herd. Captain Leela Pedersy and Andrew Froyem were feared lost until life preservers turned up. rainbow trout from Delph Creek hatchery await planting in Clackamas and neighboring counties.
SIPS FOR SUPPER AND LOCAL WORDPLAY NOTES
A quirky collage features Abe Lincoln birthday note a photographer's life enlargement offer and humorous lines about bacon squares anti knock fluid and local banking. It weaves playful sign chatter with a state poet Leland P. Lina and a codfish and hen verse about advertising payoffs.
Rise and fall of anti sweet campaign in tobacco ads
A 1920s advertising dispute centers on testimonials claiming cigarettes cause weight loss. Lucky Strike campaigns faced backlash over slenderness claims and anti sweet messaging, prompting legal scrutiny and shifts to anti fat themes while denying guaranteed body effects.
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Co Cp
Candy Men
Candy Weekly
Advertising
Utsh
Reed Smoot
George Washington
Mr. Hill
Worry as a deadly thread in a wary exchange
An old column muses that worry can prove deadly in conversations and life. It notes the strain of social pressure and the habits of men working hard while their spouses face neighbors. The tone skewers misplaced priorities and financial unease.
Drivers liable for crossing crashes after court ruling
Fresno California February 10 A municipal court decision held a transfer company liable for damages after a train struck a truck and trailer loaded with gasoline. The ruling required payment to Southern Pacific and grape grower George Maas for losses from the accident.
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Fresno
Calif
Southern Pacific
George Maas
Oregon Attracts Seventy Families in January Campaign
The state chamber of commerce reports strong results from its classified ad drive. In January 1920 seventy families settled across Oregon, with investments rising to 965000 from 26360 the prior year, and 14 485 acres reaped by new settlers. Managers note continued influx from California and growing interest in Oregon lands.
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State Chamber of Commerce
Oregen
W. G. Ide
State Chamber
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